The Story of Stuff

II. Important Information: 1. The main idea is that owning stuff is not the key to happiness and that consumers today own more than they need and it also impacts the environment. Hill demonstrates this by showing statistics of global warming due to consumerism. Hill also claims that most of our stress comes up when we are managing our own personal belongings, whether it be moving to a new house or selling stuff, and that he is personally happier in life owning less items than the average…

Obviously everyone has heard the saying everyone is different. Which is true, and that means that people are going to have different opinions on their relationship with "stuff". Growing up my mom has always told me, "Erica you better not get rid of your grandma 's stuff when you get older, or I 'm gonna come back and haunt you." Which I guess I 'm just not a sentimental person, but I have never saw the point of keeping it. To me in order to keep something you have to use it. So I have never…

In the story “Everyday Use” Dee wanted more to do with her heritage than with her Mama. She came home to ask her for something as when Dee said, “I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have,” and what she took had a lot to do with something they used on a daily basis (Walker 341). The other thing that the mother-daughter relationship was more of Dee’s why for her heritage was it kinda seemed like she did not like to come home, “Wangero despised her sister, her mother, and the…

were made out of different kinds of stuff to make it also, such like driftwood, roots of trees to use as rope, ivory, or metal if they had them. The people that used the tools were making masks. The people made parts for the masks called the universe, appendages and other stuff to add to it. The universe was usually around the mask to represent something, maybe living in the universe was it. Appendages were the carved animals, dance stuff, or some other stuff that were sticking out of the mask.…

A Child Called “It” Book Summary In the story, A Child Called It, a little boy searches for the love of a family that will love him forever. It is a book that can leave some emotionally scarred. The author Dave Pelzer wrote this autobiography about his traumatic experience with abuse from his alcohol addicted mother. When Dave was a young boy he had a family, and they loved each other. One day his mother started drinking, and became an addict. Dave was around six years old when the worst of it…

The Titanic Sank in 1912, Many people died. Some “artifacts” still remain. People think its OK to take stuff from the grave of the Titanic, well its not. Its like people coming into your house and taking stuff. Most random people don’t understand this. In this writing i'm going to tell you what i think about this. I agree and disagree, first i'm going to tell you why i agree that artifacts should be taken up. There should be a plan with professionals and scientist to go to take artifacts up…

If a captivating story is told but its validity is questioned, will it be held to prove its legitimacy? In the case of Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, the answer is yes. O’Brien’s story is based on his experiences as a soldier and the stories he was told. Towards the beginning of the piece, O’Brien provides his own circumstances of what a war story must encompass to be ‘true’. Each chapter of the book holds a war story told by a various character or the author himself. As a focus,…

In the story “Who am I without him?” Formatted/Written by Sharon Flake, in my opinion I feel like Sharon Flake wrote this story because out there in reality there are many Relationships that are manly the same as this one in where the girl has a problem with her boyfriend and she lets her egger of love take over and she ends up making incorrect choices and stays with a guy that treats her inaccurate. The Character(s) in who am I without him?” have both weaknesses and strengths, these kinds…

If you are a vacation fan you need to read this story. I will tell you about my trip to Minnesota. Ill Tell you about were you can swim and fish in. I will mention stuff like, swimming, fishing and about my aunts and uncles wedding. There will be awesome stuff like catching Northern, Walleye and Gar. So if you want excitement and action stick around for this story. It all started at 3:00 A.M I was woke up by my grandma so could get all my stuff packed so we could leave. I got dressed, ate and…

because she does many creepy and unnatural things to indicate that she is a killer, such as she stuffs her pets, and she was almost waiting for Billy Weaver to get there. One reason that indicates that she was a killer and not just a sentimental old woman, was that she stuffs her pets. “ I stuff all my little pets when they pass away.” This is a very unusual thing to do, most people don't stuff their own pets once they've died. They may go get it professionally done which this is…